World Wide Wrestling on TBS 7/9/1988
Aug 5, 2022 21:10:37 GMT
Post by Kimmel on Aug 5, 2022 21:10:37 GMT
World Wide Wrestling
On TBS 7/9/88 6:05 PM EASTERN TIME
LIVE!!! from Center Stage, Atlanta, GA
The men both run the ropes, as best they can, and Taylor hits Rhodes with a Lou Thesz Press . . . .NO! RHODES GRABS TAYLOR, SPINS HIM AROUND AND SLAMS HIM TO THE CANVAS! 1 . . . . . .2 . . . . . .
TAYLOR KICKS OUT! WOW! Fans, you might not like his cockiness, his tactics, but Terry Taylor just like the farm rooster will fight claw his way to win a fight! Rhodes bounces off the ropes, and goes for the BIONIC ELBOW DROP, MISSES! TAYLOR COVERS . . . . 1-2- . . . . . .
RHODES KICKS OUT, BUT TAYLOR CINCHES UP AGAIN:
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Promoter: Kimmel
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
President: Ole Anderson
Play by Play: David Crockett, Bob Caudle with Lance Russell
Referees: Jerry Calhoun, Rick Hazzard, Nick Patrick, Dick Woehrle, Scrappy McGowan, David Manning
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David: Welcome to World Wide Wrestling on the Superstation!!! David Crockett and Bob Caudle here and fans, I don’t know how to say it because I still can’t believe it happened…Bob we have a new World Heavyweight Champion, and IT’S “THE ROOSTER” TERRY TAYLOR!!!!!
Bob:That’s right David, and it isn’t without controversy, we are gonna hear from the new Champion later on in this program, we are also going to talk about the Great American Bash on tour with stops in Augusta and Charleston this week!!! Tomorrow Night in Augusta, GA Dusty Rhodes challenges Terry Taylor for the title in an automatic rematch!!! Plus whomever wins that one has to face the current United States Champion Ron Simmons on 7/13 in Charleston, SC!!! The National Title Tournament is in full swing, and we have a match to announce for Augusta for that tournament!!!
David: But Bob……..we can’t forget…..fans…if you didn’t see it…..you won’t believe it but Gorgeouas Jimmy Garvin will team tonight with his older brother……”RUGGED” RON GARVIN!!! You heard me right, The Garvins are together, and Manny Fernandez is on the hunt for them BOTH!!!!!!
Bob: The Bashes are in full swing fans and there is so much action we can’t recap it all!!! But first lets hear some prerecorded comments from our NEW WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!
VTR: Terry Taylor is sitting in the locker room, World Title on his shoulder, wearing a suit.
Terry Taylor: Your eyes do not deceive you, though I am not why you would doubt them as I have done EXACTLY what I said I would do and I am YOUR NEW World Heavyweight Champion. Now I know my detractors and enemies will tell you that I cheated to win this title but they are just lying to you because they refuse to accept the truth and that is that “The Rooster” is indeed the Cock of the Walk!!!!! After such a hard fought victory you would expect that I would be allowed a vacation to celebrate and to bask in this accomplishment, but no. You see Ole Anderson and the rest of the nitwits making the decisions have decided to throw your Champion to the wolves. They don’t like how I won the title, and they are going to do everything they can to try and take it from me. Scheduling me in a rematch with Dusty Rhodes and a match with Ron Simmons in the same week!!! It is preposterous!!!! But have no fear, The Rooster doesn’t plan to just roll over and give the fat cats making the decisions what they want. I’ll defend my title in these unlawful defense throughout the Great American Bash and I can assure you no matter who they put across the ring from me will go down in defeat because I AM the Cock of the Walk and YOUR World Heavyweight Champion!!!!!
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THE AMERICAN DREAM DUSTY RHODES W/BABY DOLL DEF. BOB HOLLY IN 42 SECONDS!!!!
Bob: This is the most aggressive I have seen the Dream in a long time David!!!!!
Dusty Rhodes and Baby Doll then join David and Bob!!!
Dusty Rhodes: BOB CAUDLE!!!! DAVID CROCKETT!!!!!! The Dream is here on the Supastation and he has got something to say!!!!!!!! Baby Doll, HOLD UP THE PICTURE!!!!!!
Baby Doll pulls out a polaroid that shows Terry Taylor feet on the ropes during the pin.
Dusty Rhodes: YOU SEE THIS? YOU SEE THIS RIGHT HERE?
THE ROOSTER IS CAUGHT RED HANDED!!!!! A fan gave this to Baby Doll after the match last night, and I just want the world to see!!! Terry Taylor!!!!! YOU THINK THIS IS OVER??? Baby , we ain’t even started yet!!!!!! You got the title, but you better take all the pictures you can, you better celebrate all you can because tomorrow night in Augusta, THE DREAM IS COMING FOR YOU!!!!! WE GONNA GET REAL FUNKY AND YOU ARE IN FOR A LOT OF PAIN BLUES AND AGONY TERRY TAYLOR!!!!
Dusty and Baby Doll storm off as Bob sends us to our first commercial break!!!!
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A video plays of a old pick up truck driving down the road. Take Me Home, Country Roads is playing over the video.
Voice Over:I done been up and down every road in this great country, I fought all the best and been in all the biggest arenas but the place I always want to come home to, the place I always end up back in is Georgia, back in the Southeast. And I’m coming back to Atlanta, to Charlotte and Miami and Charleston and Norfolk and everywhere between, and I’m all FIRED UP to do it!!!!
The truck stops, the drivers door opens and ”WILDFIRE” TOMMY RICH steps out!!!!!! Rich reaches in the back of the truck and grabs a duffle bag.
Tommy Rich:It’s your ol’ buddy Wildfire here back on the superstation, baby! And I’m here to stay. And Terry Taylor, you got something I want!!! I beat the great Harley Race in the Omni for the World Title once, and I know if they give me the chance I can be Champion again!!!! So everyone watching, everyone wrasslin in World Wide Wrestling, y’all better be ready cause Wildfire is about to run wild again!!!!!!
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David:Bob!!! BOB!!! It’s him!!! The former World Heavyweight Champion……TOMMY RICH……WILDFIRE!!!! HE’S HERE!!!!
Bob: That he is David and his is looking for the World Champion Terry Taylor, but he is gonna have to get in line behind the American Dream and THIS MAN!!!!!!
The Missing Link stalks around the ring while his manager Paul Jones is arguing with the referee when the music hits!!!
And here comes the man that pinned the current World Champion just a few short weeks ago and who sent former World Champion Jerry Lawler packing, THE US CHAMP, THE BAD MAN HIMSELF, RON SIMMONS!!!!
Link attacks Simmons as Simmons climbs into the ring and the brawl is on!!!!
UNITED STATES CHAMPION RON SIMMONS DEF. MISSING LINKWITH AN INVERTED POWERSLAM
Lance Russel: Alright fans, I am being joined at this time by the United States Heavyweight Champion and the man who will challenge WHOMEVER is the World Champion in Charleston, Ron Simmons!!! But before you get to the World Title you have to get through the man who won the STF challenge, THE DOG FACED GREMLIN RICK STEINER!!!
Ron Simmons: Rick Steiner is a great athlete and he is dangerous, but as long as he is with Gary Hart he ain’t nuthin but a PUNK!!! But guess what, I am gonna beat that punk in Augusta then I’m going to go into Charleston and whether it is the great Dusty Rhodes or the chump I beat for this belt (holds up the US Title) the Chickenhead Terry Taylor, Ron Simmons is gonna become the World Heavyweight Champion!!!
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RICK STEINER W/GARY HART MAULS GENE LIGON FORCING HIM TO SUMBIT TO THE STF
Gary Hart and Rick Steiner make their way to the podium and are joined by the rest of Hart’s stable, “The Iguana” Al Perez, Dick Murdoch and Bret Hart.
Lance Russel: Gary Hart, I have to say it, your men are looking strong!!!
Gary Hart:You know Lance Russel you are correct, and by the time the Great American Bash tour is over I have very little doubt all of these men will be carrying Gold. First, lets talk about the Dog Faced Gremlin, Rick Steiner, the master of the STF, the man who put Mike Rotundo out at the Pay Per View and the man who is gonna walk into Augusta tomorrow and become the new United States Heavyweight Champion. You see Ron Simmons is a talented man, he is a man who earned the US Title by defeating the current World Heavyweight Champion Terry Taylor, and the man who ran the two time former World Champion Jerry Lawler out of the territory. That is the pedigree of a man who may one day be a legend in this sport but first he has to survive Rick Steiner and the STF and that is not something done easily.
Then you have “The Iguana” Al Perez, the greatest all around athlete the sport has ever seen, on the Pay Per View he took the first step to earning gold when he defeated Wahoo McDaniel in the National Title Tournament, and I can tell you Lance Russel, that whomever he faces next in the tournament will stand no chance against this man.
And finally we come to Dickie Murdoch and my cousins’ son Bret Hart. They defeated the Fantastics and next will meet the Can-Am Blondes to decide who will be declared the #1 contenders to the World Tag Team Titles, and I can tell you right now Lance Russel I have all the faith in the world that they are gonna come out on top.
With that “The Rocket” Owen Hart and “Flyin” Brian Pillman, The Can-Am Blondes, come out to confront Gary Hart and his men!!!!!
Lance Russel: Woah nelly!!! Hold on here, lets save it for the ring fellas!!!!
Owen Hart: Mr. Russel we are not out here to cause any trouble, we are out here though to let Gary Hart, Dick Murdoch and my big brother Bret here know that when we face you two here next week, WE will be the ones walking out as the #1 contenders!!!
Bret Hart:You know what Owen? You always were running your mouth and just like I did when we were kids, next week I am going to shut your mouth!!!
Brian Pillman:Well jack, if you think you got what it takes and feeling froggy, why don’t you go ahead and jump and we will see who shuts who’s mouth!!!
Bret Hart:Why you little punk, I..
Gary Hart pulls the microphone away!!!
Gary Hart:There is no need to get into a scuffle now, there isn’t any profit in it. You two young men enjoy this time in the spotlight because its all coming to an end next week!!!! Let’s go.
Gary Hart leads his men away, Bret and Owen stare each other down but Murdoch drags Bret away.
Lance Russel: Let’s go to the ring!
THE CAN-AM BLONDES DEFEAT CHIC DONOVAN & GEORGE SOUTH WITH A DOUBLE SPLASH OFF THE TOP ROPE
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World Tag Team Champions Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard have joined Lance Russel.
Lance Russel: Well I tell ya, the teams are lining up looking to take the gold away from you Arn.
Arn Anderson:That’s what being a Champion means Lance Russel, it means day and day out you got a TARGET on your back and everyone is gunning for it!!! But if you want to take these titles from you then you better be ready to PAY THE PRICE!!!! You better be ready to pay the blood, sweat and tears it takes to be a World Champion!!!
Tully Blanchard: Since winning these belts we have been challenged by them all, The Armstrong, The Fantastics, The Powers of Pain, and we took everything they could throw at us and we are still standing here holding the GOLD!!!Next week the Can Am Blondes and Gary Hart’s team are going to face each other, they are going to beat each others brains in for the HONOR to face us for these belts!!! And boys, I have some bad news for you, if you win next week, YOU STILL LOSE. Because you have to get in the ring with the two finest tuned athletes in the World.
Lance Russell:Tully I have to ask, where is JJ today?
Tully Blanchard:That’s none of your business Lance, but let’s just say he is out handling business, and when you see him again he is going to have a big surprise for everyone here on TBS.
Arn Anderson: Bottom line is this, when you think you know what is going on, we change the rules!!!!! And whomever wins next week, when the match is over and you are sitting in the locker room basking in your glory the thought is gonna sneak in the back of your head, and then the realization is gonna dawn on ya and you are gonna realize you just signed your own death warrant!!!!
WAHOO MCDANIELS DEF. DON KERNODLE WITH A CHOP
“The Ragin Bull” Manny Fernandez joins Lance Russell.
Lance Ruseel:I’m joined at this time by a man who was cheated out of 20,000 and was betrayed by someone I thought would never do that to a friend. Bull, the Garvins seem to be back together. And you are going to be facing Ron Garvin tomorrow night in Augusta in the National Title Tournament.
Manny Fernandez:Lance Russel, if I didn’t have the respect for you that I have I wouldn’t be out here. Because the time for talking is long over and the time for action is here. Ron Garvin, we drove up and down the road together, we teamed together, we traveled this country together. We were amigos, best friends, we watched each others back and I never thought you would do what you did. I never thought you would betray me, but even worse you betrayed all these fans…..AND FOR WHAT? Your punk little brother who you said got you in more fights than you could count cause his mouth would write checks his ass couldn’t cash?? Well let me tell you what you have done Ron Garvin, and you Jimmy Garvin, you have just unleashed a part of me that’s been buried since I came out the jungle of Nam!!!! You have opened wounds that I ain’t ever thought I would feel again and you have awakened a monster in me that I can’t control, and in Augusta you are see what you----What do you want??
Buddy Landell has walked out of the locker room, still bandaged up from the Texas Death match.
Buddy Landell:I ain’t here for no trouble, I just wanna tell ya something Manny Fernandez. I have been a man to ask for help, I have never been a man that goes looking for friends. I have been on my own since I was 17 years old and that ain’t a sob story that’s just the way it is. I’m not saying this looking for sympathy, I don’t need it. I take my licks and I realize that sometimes I get myself in situations I shouldn’t be in, but I always knew, come what may brother Buddy Landell was gonna give it everything he got. Now on the Pay Per View Ron Garvin gave me one of the biggest beatings I have ever had, but I kept getting back up because I might have a screw loose but that’s how I’m built. Ron Garvin beat me, and that is what it is. I signed the contract for that match and I knew how brutal it was gonna be. What I didn’t plan on was Jimmy Garvin coming out there and getting his own shots in as well. But then something happened I never expected, and that was YOU coming out to even the odds. And brother I just wanted to come out here and shake your hand and ask you to be my partner in Charleston against the Garvins!!!!
Manny Fernandez looks down at Landell’s’ hand.
Manny Fernandez:Landell, I didn’t come out there to save you. I came out there to get the Garvins. So if you think for one second I was trying to make some alliance with you? You got another thing coming. Landell, you proved at the pay per view you are one tough SOB, but the Bull ain’t lookin for no friends. So you can take that handshake and shove it!!!!
Manny Fernandez walks away from Landell and Russell. Landell just shakes his head.
Lance Russell Oh boy, that wasn’t what I was expecting at all fans. We’ll be right back with the Garvins. But first, lets take a special look at a young man who is making his way to Worldwide Wrestling!!!This is STING!!!!
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Precious leads “Gorgeous” Jimmy Garvin and “Rugged” Ronnie Garvin out to talk to Lance Russell.
Lance Russell”As much as I am for family and brotherly love, I gotta admit Ron Garvin, this makes me a little sick to my stomach.
Jimmy Garvin: HEY NOW!!! Lance Russell, that is very hurtful, very hurtful. Look how beautiful this is!!! The Garvins reunited and it feels so good!!!!!! YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!!!!!!! You know what squeeze? I feel so great having my big brother at my side again!!!! (Precious and Jimmy kiss) I heard Buddy Landell out here whining and crying just like that dirty Mexican Manny Fernandez about how he got cheated and his sad life and all he went through and all I have to say is BOO HOO HOO . NO ONE CARES!!!!!!!!! Landell can’t even find a partner for Charleston!!!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!
Ron Garvin:You know Lance Russell I think it’s time we start talking about business, RISKY BUSINESS, because that the kinda business Manny Fernandez is toying with. Fernandez, it wasn’t personal, it was just business. When Jimmy showed up at my house and proposed putting aside our differences and working together I told him to get lost. But then I started thinking.
You see, when my brother and I were on the same page we tore down arenas and beat everyone in our path from Florida to Toronto, we sold out arenas and we won every title that we challenged for. I looked at my bank account, I looked at my house and my garage and I realized I didn’t have the things I used to have, I didn’t have the things my so called good friends like Dusty Rhodes had, and more importantly I kept coming out here on TBS NAKED!!!! Cause I didn’t have a belt around my waist, and I wasn’t getting shots at no belts either. I was stuck wrestling CHUMPS like Buddy Landell and teaming with loser like Manny Fernandez and Wahoo McDaniels. I was sidelined. I was marginalized and I had it.
I didn’t even tell Jimmy what I was planning, I sat in the back and I watched the match with Jimmy and the Bull and I knew what I had to do. Bull, you say I betrayed you? Well you betrayed me first, you and all these fans and everyone else did when you tried to ease me out to pasture. Well I’m gonna tell you this right now, NO ONE is pushing the Hands of Stone out, and in Augusta tomorrow night Bull you say I have awoken something in you? Well I have awoken something in ME!!! Because I ain’t holding back no more, worried about what the fans or what my so called friends think. All I care about is what it takes to get to the top and I ain’t letting no one stop me!!!
Jimmy Garvin: And hey, Arn and Tully? Just you wait cause the Garvins are coming for all the titles and that means yours too!!!
STEVE ARMSTRONG W/ BOB ARMSTRONG DEFEATS ROCKY KING
Bob, David and Lance are closing the show and start plugging next weeks show here on TBS!! Next week Sting makes his Worldwide debut and The Can Am Blondes will battle Gary Hart’s duo of Dick Murdoch and Bret “Hitman” Hart to declare the next #1 contender for the World Tag Titles when the Fantastic interrupt!!!
Tommy Rogers: Listen we aren’t trying to start something but we have been sitting in the back all show and we aren’t given any time out here at all and we just don’t know what’s going on!!
Bobby Fulton: That’s right man, you know the Fantastics are one of the best teams in the World and it’s RIDICULOUS we weren’t scheduled on this show AT ALL!!! But if this is how it’s gonna be then we are going to have to start taking things into our own hands and make sure people notice us for the CHAMPIONS we are!!!!
The Fantastics walk off leaving a confused group of announcers to close things up and run down this weeks Great American Bash cards!
On TBS 7/9/88 6:05 PM EASTERN TIME
LIVE!!! from Center Stage, Atlanta, GA
The men both run the ropes, as best they can, and Taylor hits Rhodes with a Lou Thesz Press . . . .NO! RHODES GRABS TAYLOR, SPINS HIM AROUND AND SLAMS HIM TO THE CANVAS! 1 . . . . . .2 . . . . . .
TAYLOR KICKS OUT! WOW! Fans, you might not like his cockiness, his tactics, but Terry Taylor just like the farm rooster will fight claw his way to win a fight! Rhodes bounces off the ropes, and goes for the BIONIC ELBOW DROP, MISSES! TAYLOR COVERS . . . . 1-2- . . . . . .
RHODES KICKS OUT, BUT TAYLOR CINCHES UP AGAIN:
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Promoter: Kimmel
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
President: Ole Anderson
Play by Play: David Crockett, Bob Caudle with Lance Russell
Referees: Jerry Calhoun, Rick Hazzard, Nick Patrick, Dick Woehrle, Scrappy McGowan, David Manning
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David: Welcome to World Wide Wrestling on the Superstation!!! David Crockett and Bob Caudle here and fans, I don’t know how to say it because I still can’t believe it happened…Bob we have a new World Heavyweight Champion, and IT’S “THE ROOSTER” TERRY TAYLOR!!!!!
Bob:That’s right David, and it isn’t without controversy, we are gonna hear from the new Champion later on in this program, we are also going to talk about the Great American Bash on tour with stops in Augusta and Charleston this week!!! Tomorrow Night in Augusta, GA Dusty Rhodes challenges Terry Taylor for the title in an automatic rematch!!! Plus whomever wins that one has to face the current United States Champion Ron Simmons on 7/13 in Charleston, SC!!! The National Title Tournament is in full swing, and we have a match to announce for Augusta for that tournament!!!
David: But Bob……..we can’t forget…..fans…if you didn’t see it…..you won’t believe it but Gorgeouas Jimmy Garvin will team tonight with his older brother……”RUGGED” RON GARVIN!!! You heard me right, The Garvins are together, and Manny Fernandez is on the hunt for them BOTH!!!!!!
Bob: The Bashes are in full swing fans and there is so much action we can’t recap it all!!! But first lets hear some prerecorded comments from our NEW WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!
VTR: Terry Taylor is sitting in the locker room, World Title on his shoulder, wearing a suit.
Terry Taylor: Your eyes do not deceive you, though I am not why you would doubt them as I have done EXACTLY what I said I would do and I am YOUR NEW World Heavyweight Champion. Now I know my detractors and enemies will tell you that I cheated to win this title but they are just lying to you because they refuse to accept the truth and that is that “The Rooster” is indeed the Cock of the Walk!!!!! After such a hard fought victory you would expect that I would be allowed a vacation to celebrate and to bask in this accomplishment, but no. You see Ole Anderson and the rest of the nitwits making the decisions have decided to throw your Champion to the wolves. They don’t like how I won the title, and they are going to do everything they can to try and take it from me. Scheduling me in a rematch with Dusty Rhodes and a match with Ron Simmons in the same week!!! It is preposterous!!!! But have no fear, The Rooster doesn’t plan to just roll over and give the fat cats making the decisions what they want. I’ll defend my title in these unlawful defense throughout the Great American Bash and I can assure you no matter who they put across the ring from me will go down in defeat because I AM the Cock of the Walk and YOUR World Heavyweight Champion!!!!!
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THE AMERICAN DREAM DUSTY RHODES W/BABY DOLL DEF. BOB HOLLY IN 42 SECONDS!!!!
Bob: This is the most aggressive I have seen the Dream in a long time David!!!!!
Dusty Rhodes and Baby Doll then join David and Bob!!!
Dusty Rhodes: BOB CAUDLE!!!! DAVID CROCKETT!!!!!! The Dream is here on the Supastation and he has got something to say!!!!!!!! Baby Doll, HOLD UP THE PICTURE!!!!!!
Baby Doll pulls out a polaroid that shows Terry Taylor feet on the ropes during the pin.
Dusty Rhodes: YOU SEE THIS? YOU SEE THIS RIGHT HERE?
THE ROOSTER IS CAUGHT RED HANDED!!!!! A fan gave this to Baby Doll after the match last night, and I just want the world to see!!! Terry Taylor!!!!! YOU THINK THIS IS OVER??? Baby , we ain’t even started yet!!!!!! You got the title, but you better take all the pictures you can, you better celebrate all you can because tomorrow night in Augusta, THE DREAM IS COMING FOR YOU!!!!! WE GONNA GET REAL FUNKY AND YOU ARE IN FOR A LOT OF PAIN BLUES AND AGONY TERRY TAYLOR!!!!Dusty and Baby Doll storm off as Bob sends us to our first commercial break!!!!
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A video plays of a old pick up truck driving down the road. Take Me Home, Country Roads is playing over the video.
Voice Over:I done been up and down every road in this great country, I fought all the best and been in all the biggest arenas but the place I always want to come home to, the place I always end up back in is Georgia, back in the Southeast. And I’m coming back to Atlanta, to Charlotte and Miami and Charleston and Norfolk and everywhere between, and I’m all FIRED UP to do it!!!!
The truck stops, the drivers door opens and ”WILDFIRE” TOMMY RICH steps out!!!!!! Rich reaches in the back of the truck and grabs a duffle bag.
Tommy Rich:It’s your ol’ buddy Wildfire here back on the superstation, baby! And I’m here to stay. And Terry Taylor, you got something I want!!! I beat the great Harley Race in the Omni for the World Title once, and I know if they give me the chance I can be Champion again!!!! So everyone watching, everyone wrasslin in World Wide Wrestling, y’all better be ready cause Wildfire is about to run wild again!!!!!!
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David:Bob!!! BOB!!! It’s him!!! The former World Heavyweight Champion……TOMMY RICH……WILDFIRE!!!! HE’S HERE!!!!
Bob: That he is David and his is looking for the World Champion Terry Taylor, but he is gonna have to get in line behind the American Dream and THIS MAN!!!!!!
The Missing Link stalks around the ring while his manager Paul Jones is arguing with the referee when the music hits!!!
And here comes the man that pinned the current World Champion just a few short weeks ago and who sent former World Champion Jerry Lawler packing, THE US CHAMP, THE BAD MAN HIMSELF, RON SIMMONS!!!!
Link attacks Simmons as Simmons climbs into the ring and the brawl is on!!!!
UNITED STATES CHAMPION RON SIMMONS DEF. MISSING LINKWITH AN INVERTED POWERSLAM
Lance Russel: Alright fans, I am being joined at this time by the United States Heavyweight Champion and the man who will challenge WHOMEVER is the World Champion in Charleston, Ron Simmons!!! But before you get to the World Title you have to get through the man who won the STF challenge, THE DOG FACED GREMLIN RICK STEINER!!!
Ron Simmons: Rick Steiner is a great athlete and he is dangerous, but as long as he is with Gary Hart he ain’t nuthin but a PUNK!!! But guess what, I am gonna beat that punk in Augusta then I’m going to go into Charleston and whether it is the great Dusty Rhodes or the chump I beat for this belt (holds up the US Title) the Chickenhead Terry Taylor, Ron Simmons is gonna become the World Heavyweight Champion!!!
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RICK STEINER W/GARY HART MAULS GENE LIGON FORCING HIM TO SUMBIT TO THE STF
Gary Hart and Rick Steiner make their way to the podium and are joined by the rest of Hart’s stable, “The Iguana” Al Perez, Dick Murdoch and Bret Hart.
Lance Russel: Gary Hart, I have to say it, your men are looking strong!!!
Gary Hart:You know Lance Russel you are correct, and by the time the Great American Bash tour is over I have very little doubt all of these men will be carrying Gold. First, lets talk about the Dog Faced Gremlin, Rick Steiner, the master of the STF, the man who put Mike Rotundo out at the Pay Per View and the man who is gonna walk into Augusta tomorrow and become the new United States Heavyweight Champion. You see Ron Simmons is a talented man, he is a man who earned the US Title by defeating the current World Heavyweight Champion Terry Taylor, and the man who ran the two time former World Champion Jerry Lawler out of the territory. That is the pedigree of a man who may one day be a legend in this sport but first he has to survive Rick Steiner and the STF and that is not something done easily.
Then you have “The Iguana” Al Perez, the greatest all around athlete the sport has ever seen, on the Pay Per View he took the first step to earning gold when he defeated Wahoo McDaniel in the National Title Tournament, and I can tell you Lance Russel, that whomever he faces next in the tournament will stand no chance against this man.
And finally we come to Dickie Murdoch and my cousins’ son Bret Hart. They defeated the Fantastics and next will meet the Can-Am Blondes to decide who will be declared the #1 contenders to the World Tag Team Titles, and I can tell you right now Lance Russel I have all the faith in the world that they are gonna come out on top.
With that “The Rocket” Owen Hart and “Flyin” Brian Pillman, The Can-Am Blondes, come out to confront Gary Hart and his men!!!!!
Lance Russel: Woah nelly!!! Hold on here, lets save it for the ring fellas!!!!
Owen Hart: Mr. Russel we are not out here to cause any trouble, we are out here though to let Gary Hart, Dick Murdoch and my big brother Bret here know that when we face you two here next week, WE will be the ones walking out as the #1 contenders!!!
Bret Hart:You know what Owen? You always were running your mouth and just like I did when we were kids, next week I am going to shut your mouth!!!
Brian Pillman:Well jack, if you think you got what it takes and feeling froggy, why don’t you go ahead and jump and we will see who shuts who’s mouth!!!
Bret Hart:Why you little punk, I..
Gary Hart pulls the microphone away!!!
Gary Hart:There is no need to get into a scuffle now, there isn’t any profit in it. You two young men enjoy this time in the spotlight because its all coming to an end next week!!!! Let’s go.
Gary Hart leads his men away, Bret and Owen stare each other down but Murdoch drags Bret away.
Lance Russel: Let’s go to the ring!
THE CAN-AM BLONDES DEFEAT CHIC DONOVAN & GEORGE SOUTH WITH A DOUBLE SPLASH OFF THE TOP ROPE
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World Tag Team Champions Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard have joined Lance Russel.
Lance Russel: Well I tell ya, the teams are lining up looking to take the gold away from you Arn.
Arn Anderson:That’s what being a Champion means Lance Russel, it means day and day out you got a TARGET on your back and everyone is gunning for it!!! But if you want to take these titles from you then you better be ready to PAY THE PRICE!!!! You better be ready to pay the blood, sweat and tears it takes to be a World Champion!!!
Tully Blanchard: Since winning these belts we have been challenged by them all, The Armstrong, The Fantastics, The Powers of Pain, and we took everything they could throw at us and we are still standing here holding the GOLD!!!Next week the Can Am Blondes and Gary Hart’s team are going to face each other, they are going to beat each others brains in for the HONOR to face us for these belts!!! And boys, I have some bad news for you, if you win next week, YOU STILL LOSE. Because you have to get in the ring with the two finest tuned athletes in the World.
Lance Russell:Tully I have to ask, where is JJ today?
Tully Blanchard:That’s none of your business Lance, but let’s just say he is out handling business, and when you see him again he is going to have a big surprise for everyone here on TBS.
Arn Anderson: Bottom line is this, when you think you know what is going on, we change the rules!!!!! And whomever wins next week, when the match is over and you are sitting in the locker room basking in your glory the thought is gonna sneak in the back of your head, and then the realization is gonna dawn on ya and you are gonna realize you just signed your own death warrant!!!!
WAHOO MCDANIELS DEF. DON KERNODLE WITH A CHOP
“The Ragin Bull” Manny Fernandez joins Lance Russell.
Lance Ruseel:I’m joined at this time by a man who was cheated out of 20,000 and was betrayed by someone I thought would never do that to a friend. Bull, the Garvins seem to be back together. And you are going to be facing Ron Garvin tomorrow night in Augusta in the National Title Tournament.
Manny Fernandez:Lance Russel, if I didn’t have the respect for you that I have I wouldn’t be out here. Because the time for talking is long over and the time for action is here. Ron Garvin, we drove up and down the road together, we teamed together, we traveled this country together. We were amigos, best friends, we watched each others back and I never thought you would do what you did. I never thought you would betray me, but even worse you betrayed all these fans…..AND FOR WHAT?
Your punk little brother who you said got you in more fights than you could count cause his mouth would write checks his ass couldn’t cash?? Well let me tell you what you have done Ron Garvin, and you Jimmy Garvin, you have just unleashed a part of me that’s been buried since I came out the jungle of Nam!!!! You have opened wounds that I ain’t ever thought I would feel again and you have awakened a monster in me that I can’t control, and in Augusta you are see what you----What do you want??Buddy Landell has walked out of the locker room, still bandaged up from the Texas Death match.
Buddy Landell:I ain’t here for no trouble, I just wanna tell ya something Manny Fernandez. I have been a man to ask for help, I have never been a man that goes looking for friends. I have been on my own since I was 17 years old and that ain’t a sob story that’s just the way it is. I’m not saying this looking for sympathy, I don’t need it. I take my licks and I realize that sometimes I get myself in situations I shouldn’t be in, but I always knew, come what may brother Buddy Landell was gonna give it everything he got. Now on the Pay Per View Ron Garvin gave me one of the biggest beatings I have ever had, but I kept getting back up because I might have a screw loose but that’s how I’m built. Ron Garvin beat me, and that is what it is. I signed the contract for that match and I knew how brutal it was gonna be. What I didn’t plan on was Jimmy Garvin coming out there and getting his own shots in as well. But then something happened I never expected, and that was YOU coming out to even the odds. And brother I just wanted to come out here and shake your hand and ask you to be my partner in Charleston against the Garvins!!!!
Manny Fernandez looks down at Landell’s’ hand.
Manny Fernandez:Landell, I didn’t come out there to save you. I came out there to get the Garvins. So if you think for one second I was trying to make some alliance with you? You got another thing coming. Landell, you proved at the pay per view you are one tough SOB, but the Bull ain’t lookin for no friends. So you can take that handshake and shove it!!!!
Manny Fernandez walks away from Landell and Russell. Landell just shakes his head.
Lance Russell Oh boy, that wasn’t what I was expecting at all fans. We’ll be right back with the Garvins. But first, lets take a special look at a young man who is making his way to Worldwide Wrestling!!!This is STING!!!!
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Precious leads “Gorgeous” Jimmy Garvin and “Rugged” Ronnie Garvin out to talk to Lance Russell.
Lance Russell”As much as I am for family and brotherly love, I gotta admit Ron Garvin, this makes me a little sick to my stomach.
Jimmy Garvin: HEY NOW!!! Lance Russell, that is very hurtful, very hurtful. Look how beautiful this is!!! The Garvins reunited and it feels so good!!!!!! YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!!!!!!! You know what squeeze? I feel so great having my big brother at my side again!!!! (Precious and Jimmy kiss) I heard Buddy Landell out here whining and crying just like that dirty Mexican Manny Fernandez about how he got cheated and his sad life and all he went through and all I have to say is BOO HOO HOO . NO ONE CARES!!!!!!!!! Landell can’t even find a partner for Charleston!!!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!
Ron Garvin:You know Lance Russell I think it’s time we start talking about business, RISKY BUSINESS, because that the kinda business Manny Fernandez is toying with. Fernandez, it wasn’t personal, it was just business. When Jimmy showed up at my house and proposed putting aside our differences and working together I told him to get lost. But then I started thinking.
You see, when my brother and I were on the same page we tore down arenas and beat everyone in our path from Florida to Toronto, we sold out arenas and we won every title that we challenged for. I looked at my bank account, I looked at my house and my garage and I realized I didn’t have the things I used to have, I didn’t have the things my so called good friends like Dusty Rhodes had, and more importantly I kept coming out here on TBS NAKED!!!! Cause I didn’t have a belt around my waist, and I wasn’t getting shots at no belts either. I was stuck wrestling CHUMPS like Buddy Landell and teaming with loser like Manny Fernandez and Wahoo McDaniels. I was sidelined. I was marginalized and I had it.
I didn’t even tell Jimmy what I was planning, I sat in the back and I watched the match with Jimmy and the Bull and I knew what I had to do. Bull, you say I betrayed you? Well you betrayed me first, you and all these fans and everyone else did when you tried to ease me out to pasture. Well I’m gonna tell you this right now, NO ONE is pushing the Hands of Stone out, and in Augusta tomorrow night Bull you say I have awoken something in you? Well I have awoken something in ME!!! Because I ain’t holding back no more, worried about what the fans or what my so called friends think. All I care about is what it takes to get to the top and I ain’t letting no one stop me!!!
Jimmy Garvin: And hey, Arn and Tully? Just you wait cause the Garvins are coming for all the titles and that means yours too!!!
STEVE ARMSTRONG W/ BOB ARMSTRONG DEFEATS ROCKY KING
Bob, David and Lance are closing the show and start plugging next weeks show here on TBS!! Next week Sting makes his Worldwide debut and The Can Am Blondes will battle Gary Hart’s duo of Dick Murdoch and Bret “Hitman” Hart to declare the next #1 contender for the World Tag Titles when the Fantastic interrupt!!!
Tommy Rogers: Listen we aren’t trying to start something but we have been sitting in the back all show and we aren’t given any time out here at all and we just don’t know what’s going on!!
Bobby Fulton: That’s right man, you know the Fantastics are one of the best teams in the World and it’s RIDICULOUS we weren’t scheduled on this show AT ALL!!! But if this is how it’s gonna be then we are going to have to start taking things into our own hands and make sure people notice us for the CHAMPIONS we are!!!!
The Fantastics walk off leaving a confused group of announcers to close things up and run down this weeks Great American Bash cards!
GREAT AMERICAN BASH ON TOUR!!!!
AUGUSTA, GA 7/10/88
WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
TERRY TAYLOR DEFENDS AGAINST “THE AMERICAN DREAM” DUSTY RHODES W/BABY DOLL
UNITED STATES HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
“ALL AMERICAN” RON SIMMONS DEFENDS AGAINST RICK STIENER W/GARY HART
NATIONAL TITLE TOURNAMENT QUARTER FINAL:
“RUGGED” RON GARVIN W/PRECIOUS VS. “RAGIN BULL” MANNY FERNANDEZ
“THE IGUANA” AL PEREZ, DICK MURDOCH & BRET HART VS. CAN-AM BLONDES & WAHOO MCDANIELS
10 MAN, $10,000 OVER THE TOP BATTLE ROYAL FEATURING THE WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS ARN ANDERSON & TULLY BLANCHARD, BUDDY LANDELL, “GORGEOUS” JIMMY GARVIN , THE FANTASTICS, AND OTHERS!
THE ARMSTRONGS IN SIX MAN ACTION!!!!!
WILDFIRE TOMMY RICH RETURNS TO GEORGIA!
PLUS MUCH MORE!!!!
CHARLESTON, SC 7/13/1988
WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP:
TERRY TAYLOR DEFENDS AGAUNST “THE ALL AMERICAN” RON SIMMONS
THE GARVINS W/PRECIOUS VS. BUDDY LANDELL & A PARTNER
BRET “HITMAN” HART W/GARY HART VS. FLYIN BRIAN PILLMAN
10 MAN, $10,000 OVER THE TOP BATTLE ROYAL FEATURING “THE RAGIN BULL” MANNY FERNANDEZ, “THE IGUANA AL PEREZ, THE FANTASTICS, AND OTHERS!
NON TITLE:
ARN ANDERSTON & TULLY BLANCHARD W/ JJ DILLON VS. “THE AMERICAN DREAM” DUSTY RHODES & WAHOO MCDANIEL
“THE ROCKET” OWEN HART VS. DICK MURDOCH W/GARY HART
AND MUCH MORE!!!!
AUGUSTA, GA 7/10/88
WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
TERRY TAYLOR DEFENDS AGAINST “THE AMERICAN DREAM” DUSTY RHODES W/BABY DOLL
UNITED STATES HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
“ALL AMERICAN” RON SIMMONS DEFENDS AGAINST RICK STIENER W/GARY HART
NATIONAL TITLE TOURNAMENT QUARTER FINAL:
“RUGGED” RON GARVIN W/PRECIOUS VS. “RAGIN BULL” MANNY FERNANDEZ
“THE IGUANA” AL PEREZ, DICK MURDOCH & BRET HART VS. CAN-AM BLONDES & WAHOO MCDANIELS
10 MAN, $10,000 OVER THE TOP BATTLE ROYAL FEATURING THE WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS ARN ANDERSON & TULLY BLANCHARD, BUDDY LANDELL, “GORGEOUS” JIMMY GARVIN , THE FANTASTICS, AND OTHERS!
THE ARMSTRONGS IN SIX MAN ACTION!!!!!
WILDFIRE TOMMY RICH RETURNS TO GEORGIA!
PLUS MUCH MORE!!!!
CHARLESTON, SC 7/13/1988
WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP:
TERRY TAYLOR DEFENDS AGAUNST “THE ALL AMERICAN” RON SIMMONS
THE GARVINS W/PRECIOUS VS. BUDDY LANDELL & A PARTNER
BRET “HITMAN” HART W/GARY HART VS. FLYIN BRIAN PILLMAN
10 MAN, $10,000 OVER THE TOP BATTLE ROYAL FEATURING “THE RAGIN BULL” MANNY FERNANDEZ, “THE IGUANA AL PEREZ, THE FANTASTICS, AND OTHERS!
NON TITLE:
ARN ANDERSTON & TULLY BLANCHARD W/ JJ DILLON VS. “THE AMERICAN DREAM” DUSTY RHODES & WAHOO MCDANIEL
“THE ROCKET” OWEN HART VS. DICK MURDOCH W/GARY HART
AND MUCH MORE!!!!
Working on it now.